"Alun Palmer" wrote in message
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I'd like to see what the CEPT do at the end of this month in their
meeting. At present they have two classes : Class 1 (full privileges,
requires full theory test and 5wpm, recently reduced from 12wpm) and Class
2 (144 MHz +, reduced theory requirement, no code).

I believe that the only difference between CEPT Class 1 and Class 2
is the Morse requirement for Class 1 ... the written tests come from
the "HAREC" standard ... and I *believe* that they are the same.

So many countries belong to the CEPT agreement that it will place a huge
amount of pressure on individual countries to abolish code testing more
quickly. In the interim, lots of no-coders would be able to operate HF
only by going mobile and driving across a border!

Yes, ain't it *sweet*? :-)

I expect the dominoes to fall quite rapidly.

73,
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Carl R. Stevenson - wk3c
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